Thank you so much ninjabreadman and e3v3a for pointing me in the right direction. With the info the both of you provided I was able to get MM2 working on my Raspberry 3 running Stretch Lite.
Installing updated node.js as per https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=140747&p=1256048#p1256048 and following this guide https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide were the keys to success.
Only thing left is that I wasn’t able to disable the sceensaver yet.
Next steps are to try to get it to run on a Pi 0 W and get touch functionality added to my mirror.
Thanks again
loonix